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sacred and profane  

Definition

  • Emile Durkheim (1912) made much of this distinction in his Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. The sacred were those things that were set apart and revered; everything else was profane. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Sacred and Profane]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZQB44PGP-P

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